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Play anything good lately? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I primarily mean video games. However, if you've played some kind of interesting table top or card game I'd like to hear about that too! I've been replaying the Witcher 3 lately.

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[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm a sucker for nostalgia and a believer of game preservation, and I managed to figure out, with some guides, how to setup my own private World of Warcraft server using AzerothCore. It only goes up to Wotlk but IMO, that's the best expansion anyway.

I've been using it currently to solo play the game with bots. Funny enough, the bots actually dodge fire! Lol. But since it has bots that means I can still do dungeon and raid content! And I don't have to deal with the stress of juggling a raid schedule. I can just play whenever I want, however long I want.

It does also have the option to be port forwarded to allow friends to join. But I don't have any good friends interested in that. And I don't want to make the server fully public for reasons.

Unfortunately, its very complicated to setup. So I highly recommend finding a guide before trying to install it. It does require setting up a virtual machine and running a bunch of scripts. So it can be a bit complicated for anyone who isn't tech savvy.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's actually amazing, can you choose the bots you're filling the raid/party slots with? I've got wicked nostalgia for wotlk and my partner was interested in wow when classic came out but they've had bad experiences with pug raids in other games (heck, even issues with guilds). Would you mind posting a link to some of the guides you used?

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Yes! You get to invite the bots and choose their talent specs and everything. And you can fill raids with them too!

The following YouTube video is a step-by-step guide to setting up AzerothCore with player bots. It is a bit complicated but if you follow along, you too can get a WoW server stood up ;-)

https://youtu.be/UG900F19GPk

Once you have the server, you can use the ChromieCraft client and edit "WTF/Config.wtf". And set the "realmList" to the local IP of the virtual machine.

https://www.chromiecraft.com/en/downloads/

Oh also, here's a link to the player bot commands list. It's a bunch of text commands. Nirv has a addon that lets him issue commands but for whatever reason it's incompatible with some of my preferred addons. So I just create chat macros and use an action bar to issue commands.

https://github.com/mod-playerbots/mod-playerbots/wiki/Playerbot-Commands

Note: I feel like I should warn... Nirv is kinda an a-hole. But he is very smart and knowledgeable about this stuff. So maybe just focus on the tutorial and getting it setup etc.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you, I'll have a look after work!